waiting for new phone to be delivered
Oct. 10th, 2024 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidIt's the third most expensive thing I've ever bought in my life by just a few hundred dollars! I mean all of you who have bought your own home can laugh at me. Here I am, a grown man with some white beard hairs complaining about the price of a phone. I mean I've spent more on any of a number of return flights, let alone vacations. But I'm still shocked. I could have gone for a cheaper model (last year's had a serious discount) but I like to buy top of the line with extra RAM and storage, and then keep it for a long time. Even some reviewers said this model is overpriced. My current phone is 6 years old, and if the screen wasn't lifting (thanks to 3 battery replacements and glue-dependent manufacturing, thanks planned obsolescence) I could potentially keep using it for 1 or 3 more years, save for the lack of OS updates. This new one comes with 7 years of software updates, which really pleases me.
The one thing that sucks a bit about hanging on to my old phone for so long is that there are many trade-in programs to get a serious discount on the new phone, but even with generous timelines, my old phone is just too old.
(The new phone is a Pixel 9 Pro, which fiiiinally ships here from Google after months (...2) of delay).
The one thing that sucks a bit about hanging on to my old phone for so long is that there are many trade-in programs to get a serious discount on the new phone, but even with generous timelines, my old phone is just too old.
(The new phone is a Pixel 9 Pro, which fiiiinally ships here from Google after months (...2) of delay).
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Date: 2024-10-10 07:02 pm (UTC)As for improved cameras - cell phone cameras haven't been bad enough for years for me to dislike even the lowest end ones available. This is the same principle that caused me to buy a decent ghetto blaster, many years ago, rather than an expensive stereo system - I couldn't hear the difference, with the music I preferred. So no need to spend more to get what would only be a status symbol ;-) Obviously YMMV.
I also know, from my time at Apple, that the cameras with the best stats often use an extreme amount of phone resources, especially memory. The result was (usually minor) performance issues, often in other apps, when you'd used the camera recently. My job was to fix performance issues, so I got to see a lot of them.
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